Dr Simon Carmel
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874769
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Location
EBS.3.61, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Weeks 1-3: Fridays, 11am-1pm. Week 4: Friday 27 October, 12noon-2pm Weeks 5&6: Fridays, 11am-12noon & 1:45pm-2:45pm Weeks 7-10: Fridays, 12noon-2pm. Week 11: Wednesday 13 December, 2pm-4pm.
Profile
Biography
I joined the University of Essex in July 2005 and took up my present post in Essex Business School in January 2013. Previous responsibilities and posts include: Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Essex; Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Essex; Lecturer in Health Studies, School of Health and Human Sciences, Essex; Senior Research Officer, University Hospital Lewisham; Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Research Fellow, Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre.
Qualifications
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PhD (London), Sociology as Applied to Medicine
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MSc (Surrey), Social Research
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MSc (Liverpool), Software Engineering
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BSc (Durham), Natural Sciences
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Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research and professional activities
Research interests
professional values
organisational and workplace ethnography
teamwork, inter-professional relations and the division of labour
academic evaluation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
micro-social theory (interactionism, strong structuration, practice theory)
the concept of vocation
Conferences and presentations
2023: Control of Immigrant labour in Ethnic Minority Businesses: the case of British Curry Houses
Management Control Association, Durham, 21/6/2023
2023:The Layers of Internal Structures in Strong Structuration Theory
Management Control Association, Durham, 21/6/2023
2022: Ethnographic Sensibility in Qualitative Interviewing
Ethnography Symposum, Ipswich, United Kingdom, 24/8/2022
2022: Science, Medicine, and Marketing: an abandoned treatment for a critical illness
EBS Management and Marketing Group Seminar, 9/2/2022
2021: Expert disagreement in a dispute about intensive care research
AsSIST-UK Annual Conference, Virtual, 10/9/2021
2020: Disputing RCT evidence: a contest for the meaning of intensive care research
Interdisciplinary workshop on Biomedical evidence, Virtual, 1/12/2020
2020: Strong Structuration Theory is Realist Structuration Theory
Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Virtual, 18/11/2020
2020: Whose side are you on? On studying contentious legitimate knowledge
EASST/4S, Virtual/Prague, 21/8/2020
2018: The Ethnographic Sensibility of Strong Structuration Theory
Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Dublin, 16/4/2018
2017: The association of institutional location with two moral orders of professionalism, International Sociological Association Research Committee 52 Interim conference, Oslo, June.
Oslo, Norway, 2017
2017: 'Two moral orders of professionalism, Centre for Work, Organisational and Society, Essex Business School, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2017
2017: SST and the enactment of professional values (with Pinar Guven-Uslu). Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, University of Essex, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2017
2016: 'Paradoxical Clinical Practice',Process in Organisational Studies Symposium, Corfu, June.
Corfu, Greece, 2016
2016: Habitus and (in)active agency in public sector management accounting (with Pinar Guven-Uslu). Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Paris, May
Paris, France, 2016
2014: 'Science, marketing and professional values', Essex Business School Research Conference, January
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2014
2013: 'Science, marketing and professional values', International Sociological Association Research Committee 52 Interim Conference, Lisbon, November.
Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
2012: 'Clinical Practice and Social Theory, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, Leicester, September
Leicester, United Kingdom, 2012
2011: The PROWESS Clinical Trial Conundrum, School of Health and Human Sciences Staff Research Day, University of Essex, July.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2011
2011: Expert nurses and the division of labour in hospitals, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2011
2010: Expert nurses and the division of labour in hospitals, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, July.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010
2009: Gaining access as a social and problematic phenomenon, Essex Business School Management Group, December.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2009
2007: Qualitative evaluation of outreach services in critical care, Southern Outreach Forum, Haywards Heath, October.
2007
2007: Evaluating Critical care without walls: the social meaning of an organisational innovation, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, Liverpool, September.
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2007
2007: Evaluation of critical care outreach services: Results from a qualitative sub-study, National Outreach Forum, Sheffield, March.
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2007
2007: Knowledge, practice and action: the craft of high technology health care, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, February.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2007
2006: Problems of Social Access: are ethnographers gossips? Ethnography in Social and Management Sciences Conference, Liverpool, September
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2006
2006: The social organisation of high technology health care, Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, February.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2006
2005: The transition from paediatric to adult services for young people with a chronic illness. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2005
2004: The craft of high technology medicine. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2004
2003: Problems in the practice of high technology medicine. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, York, April.
York, United Kingdom, 2003
2002: The organisation of work in intensive care. International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care, Oxford, March.
Oxford, United Kingdom, 2002
2001: Uncertainty in intensive care work. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2001
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Personality Differences at Work: a Myers-Briggs Perspective (BE421)
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Management and Strategy (BE485)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Public Health (Health Visiting)
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 6/6/2016
Degree type: Master of Science
Awarded date: 21/11/2014
Publications
Journal articles (11)
Carmel, S. and Jacobi, E., (2023). Exploring valuation practices in diagnosis-as-category: The rising dominance of clinical practice in the categorisation of Sepsis, 1991-2016.. Sociology of Health and Illness
Carmel, S., (2022). How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 136345932211340-136345932211340
Jayasinghe, K., Adhikari, P., Carmel, S. and Sopanah, A., (2020). Multiple Rationalities of Participatory Budgeting in Indigenous Communities: Evidence from Indonesia. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 33 (8), 2139-2166
Agyemang, J., Jayasinghe, K., Adhikari, P., Carmel, S. and Abongeh, T., (2020). Calculative Measures of Organising and Decision-Making in Developing Countries: The Case of a Quasi-Formal Organisation in Ghana. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 34 (2), 421-450
Carmel, S., (2013). The craft of intensive care medicine. Sociology of Health & Illness. 35 (5), 731-745
Carmel, S. and Baker-McClearn, D., (2011). Expert Nurses and the Division of Labour in Hospitals. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 16 (3), 282-297
Carmel, S., (2011). Social access in the workplace: are ethnographers gossips?. Work, Employment & Society. 25 (3), 551-560
Baker-McClearn, D. and Carmel, S., (2008). Impact of critical care outreach services on the delivery and organization of hospital care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 13 (3), 152-157
Carmel, S., (2006). Boundaries obscured and boundaries reinforced: incorporation as a strategy of occupational enhancement for intensive care. Sociology of Health & Illness. 28 (2), 154-177
Carmel, S., (2006). Health care practices, professions and perspectives: A case study in intensive care. Social Science & Medicine. 62 (8), 2079-2090
Carmel, S. and Rowan, K., (2001). Variation in intensive care unit outcomes: a search for the evidence on organizational factors. Current Opinion in Critical Care. 7 (4), 284-296
Contact
Academic support hours:
Weeks 1-3: Fridays, 11am-1pm. Week 4: Friday 27 October, 12noon-2pm Weeks 5&6: Fridays, 11am-12noon & 1:45pm-2:45pm Weeks 7-10: Fridays, 12noon-2pm. Week 11: Wednesday 13 December, 2pm-4pm.
